Word: sugars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...campaign, the Nacionalistas have spent in quantities unmatched since the Liberals threw around more than $1,000,000 in public funds in 1953 (and lost). To counter the Nacionalistas' largesse, the Liberals' Presidential Candidate José Yulo has used an estimated $2,500,000 of his personal sugar fortune. Throughout the countryside, well-armed election workers were busily canvassing voters for campaign funds, with their guns suggestively visible. Complaints of pre-election fraud, terrorism and violence poured in on the Commission of Elections, which plaintively asked all candidates to limit their armed bodyguards to a maximum of four...
...Union Square, Gunawardena calls himself "a Marxist, first, last and always." From the moment Bandaranaike took him into the government last year (ostensibly to keep him quiet), Gunawardena has stepped up his demands for more and more nationalization. He has already won authority to control all rice and sugar sales. His latest proposal would give him the right to control and collectivize every paddy field in the nation. Bandaranaike, who originally opposed the bill, discreetly switched his stand and gave it his backing after discovering it had considerable parliamentary support...
...What do your tea leaves tell you?" my friend with the dragon inquired. He had pretended not to notice how fast I cleaned my plate. There wasn't any sugar...
...they have sent has often proved inferior, e.g., low-quality newsprint that tears in Cairo's high-speed Western presses. Cracked a Cairo editor: "Pravda must go to press at 6 o'clock at night." The domestic economy twitches along in austerity and torpor, with tea and sugar scarcely obtainable except at black-market prices, and the regime invoking military law in an effort to force butchers to sell meat at new, government-set prices. The price of kerosene, essential for cooking and lighting in the fellah's household, is up 10% since last November, and foreign...
...major aspect of the work program, perhaps in a category all by itself, is the maple sugaring operation that brings the students and the school about 500 dollars each year. "Buck" Turner is in charge of this job, and about the end of February, when the thaw starts to set in, he and his crew begin to puncture the maples with small plastic spigots connected by an elaborate system of polyethylene tubing running to a central collecting vat in the sugar house down the hill. Occasionally, just to preserve the true spirit of Vermont sugaring, they hitch...